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To Be Continued, 4

Thursday 12 - Friday 13 September 2024

Defining, Producing, Performing, Consuming, and Theorising Serials and Adaptations

Organisers: Julie Grossman (Le Moyne College), Thomas Leitch (University of Delaware), Iain Robert Smith (King’s College), Constantine Verevis (Monash University)

Panel 1. PERFORMANCE

Thursday 12 September, 10am - 11.30am US EDT

Presenters

• Elizabeth Alsop (CUNY): Serial Glimpses: The Case of Jeannie Berlin
• Claudia Calhoun (Hunter College): With and Without Method: Performance in The Naked City (1948) and Naked City (1958-1963)
• Steven Cohan (Syracuse U): Some Like it Hot, Serially
• Cinta Pelejà (Goethe Universität Frankfurt) Aging across Films: Performance in Documentary Sequels
• Claire Perkins (Monash U): Serially Messy: Performing the Self in Precarious-Girl Dramedy
• Maria San Filippo (Emerson College): Disney Tomboy to Lesbian Icon, Taxi Driver to True Detective Night Country: Fifty Years of Jodie Foster
• Kyle Stevens (Appalachian State U): Only Meryl in the Building

Chairperson

• Julie Grossman (Le Moyne College)

Panel 2. TRANSNATIONALISM

Thursday 12 September, 12pm - 1.30pm US EDT

Presenters

• Savaş Arslan (Dokuz Eylül U): Early Turkish Cinema and Localization
• Rayna Denison (U Bristol): In Search of the One Piece: Markers of Authenticity in Netflix's Transcultural Anime Adaptation Practices
• Tejaswini Ganti (NYU): Is it a Hollywood film or a Bollywood film? Dubbing as a Form of Remaking
• Mia Chen Ma (U Strathclyde): Global Appeal vs. Cultural Export: The Transnational TV Adaptation of Chinese Science Fiction “The Three-Body Problem”
• Glenn Maur (UCLA): Indonesia and the Comics Translation Movement of the Nineteen Sixties and Seventies
• Lucy Mazdon (Oxford Brookes U): From Screen to Stage: Adapting Miyazaki for the Theatre
• Wieland Schwanebeck (TU Dresden): Dubbing as Adaptation: West-Germany in the 1960s and 1970s

Chairperson

• Iain Smith (King’s College)

Panel 3. GENRE

Friday 13 September, 10am - 11.30am US EDT

Presenters

• Melis Behlil (Kadir Has U): Alive and Kicking: Horror, Comedy, and Biopics in Contemporary Popular Turkish Cinema
• Mary Harrod (Warwick U): Keeping the Bathwater, Chucking the Baby: Citation as Parricide in Contemporary Film and TV
• Amy Herzog (Queen’s College & CUNY): On the Uses and Disadvantages of Genre for Life
• Amanda Ann Klein (East Carolina U): The Persistence of Genre in an Age of IP
• Valeria Villegas Lindvall (Independent Scholar): Mariana Enríquez’s adaptations by Prano Bailey Bond and Michelle Garza Cervera
• Jason Mittell (Middlebury College): Scott Pilgrim vs. Intertextuality: How a Cross-Media Adaptation Scrambles Categories and Reboots Expectations
• Meheli Sen (Rutgers U): Horrors Real and Imagined: Femaleness and Feminism in Post 'Me-too' Indian Media

Chairperson

• Constantine Verevis (Monash University)

Panel 4. ENDINGS

Friday 13 September, 12pm - 1.30pm US EDT

Presenters

• Scott Higgins (Wesleyan U): Death as a Formal Conundrum
• Christopher Hogg (U Westminster): Defying Death: The Resurrection of Soap Characters on British Television
• Betty Kaklamanidou (Aristotle U Thessaloniki): The half-hour TV comedy reboot and the non-finality of endings. Bottom line or evasion of mortality?
• Frank Kelleter (Freie U Berlin): Endings or Losses? Thoughts on the Potential Finitude of Popular Seriality Studies
• Colleen Kennedy-Karpat (Bilkent U): It’s the End of the University as We Know It (and I Feel … Fine?)
• Thomas Leitch (U Delaware): Just Because You’re Dead: Challenges Posed by Posthumous Mystery Sequels
• Christina Wilkins (U Birmingham): ’And That's the End of it. There's Nothing Else’: Serial Narrative Control in Television

Chairperson

• Thomas Leitch (University of Delaware)

To Be Continued, 3 

Thursday 14 - Friday 15 September 2023

Defining, Producing, Performing, Consuming, and Theorising Serials and Adaptations

Organisers: Julie Grossman (Le Moyne College), Thomas Leitch (University of Delaware), Iain Robert Smith (King’s College), Constantine Verevis (Monash University)

Panel 1. GENRE

Presenters

• Megen de Bruin-Molé (U Southampton): The Politics of “Remixes”
• Ilyas Deniz Çınar Istanbul Istinye U): Seriality and Genre in Yeşilçam-era Turkish Cinema: Notes on Guido Zurli’s Yumurcak Küçük Kovboy [Yumurcak the Little Cowboy] (
• David Scott Diffrient (Colorado State U): It Never (Not) Ends: Serialization, “Soloization,” and Terminal Completion in the Final Girl Franchise
• Kevin Flanagan (George Mason U): On or About Feb 23: Boutique Blu-Ray Sets and Ways of Viewing
• Mikal Gaines (MCPHS Boston): Racial Revision Through Seriality in The Purge Franchise
• Lucyna Krawczyk-Żywko (U Warsaw): The Versus Network: Adapting and Serialising the Holmes vs the Ripper Story
• Christina Wilkins (U Birmingham): Adaptation/Expansion/Revision

Chairperson

• Iain Robert Smith (King's College)

Panel 2. FORM

Presenters

• Ryan Borochovitz (U Toronto): The Contemporary Two-Part Play: Serializing Theatrical Performance
• Claudia Calhoun (Hunter College, CUNY): TBA 8 Million Stories:" Naked City's Cultural Explorations through Form
• Nick Davie (U Nottingham): The Art of Arthouse Television: Defining Aesthetic Serials through Twin Peaks: The Return and The Kingdom
• Kamilla Elliott (Lancaster U): Bite-sized app-etizer serialization in the twenty-first century
• Lynn Kozak (McGill U): The One About…Television Episode Title Sequences
• Sanna McGregor (U Groningen): Jodorowsky’s Dune: Archontic Paratexts and the Best Adaptation Never Made
• Teresa Ramoni (Rutgers U): “Stabler’s back. But Liv never left”: The Problematization of the Ending in American Episodic Television

Chairperson

• Thomas Leitch (University of Delaware)

Panel 3. REPRESENTATION

Presenters

• Louise Coopey (U Birmingham): Reading representation and identity in complex television
• Philippa Gates (Wilfrid Laurier U): Hot Topic as Common Trope: Chinese Immigrants in the Civil Rights Television Western
• Pete Kunze (Tulane U): Promoting Progress in The Little Mermaid (2023)
• Ceci Moffett (U Wisconsin, Madison): Adapting Alternate Histories: Race and Dark Tourism in Transmedia Adaptions
• Nelly Strehlau (Nicolaus Copernicus U): Between transgression, respectability and commodification: Filming Fanfic (2023) for Polish and international audiences
• Kristen Warner (Cornell U): Authenticity in the Era of Plastic Representation
• Maryam Zehra (Jamia Millia Islamia): WITHDRAWN

Chairperson

• Julie Grossman (Le Moyne College)

Panel 4. RECEPTION

Presenters

• Thomas Britt (George Mason U): Erasure and Regeneration in Serialized Screen Storytelling
• Atalya De Cock (Ghent U): Revival of the fittest: Nostalgia in Flemish sequel production
• James Fleury (Washington U, St. Louis): Legacyquels and Multiverses: Contemporary Approaches to Franchising
• Madeleine Hunter (U Cambridge): WITHDRAWN
• Maria Juko (Independent Scholar): WITHDRAWN
• Alfred Martin (U Miami): The Ultimate Yellow Brick: Race, Reception, and The Wiz.
• Mike Phillips (Southern Illinois U): Chucky vs. Woody: Empathy with IP in a Hostile Reboo

Chairperson

• Constantine Verevis (Monash University)

To Be Continued, 2

Thursday 22 - Friday 23 September 2022

Defining, Producing, Performing, Consuming, and Theorising Serials and Adaptations

Organisers: Julie Grossman (Le Moyne College), Thomas Leitch (University of Delaware), Iain Robert Smith (King’s College), Constantine Verevis (Monash University)

Panel 1. GENRE I

Presenters

• Colleen Kennedy-Karpat (Bilkent University): "Genre and Agnès Varda's Companion Films"
• Barbara Klinger (Indiana University Bloomington): "Hollywood Classics: Adapting Old Films to New Media Platforms"
• Susanne Köller (University of Konstanz): "Halting and Catching Fire and Halting and Catching Fire: Serializing Period in Contemporary TV Drama"
• Laura Mee (University of Hertfordshire): "Say His Name: Reanimating the Antagonist in the New Horror Requel"
• Will Scheibel (Syracuse University): "Seriality and Studio Branding in the Universal Classic Monster Movies"
• Shelley Stamp (University of California, Santa Cruz): "Radio Drama, Female Audiences, and the Dissemination of Noir Taste"
• Sherryl Vint (University of California, Riverside): "Reboot and Reinvention: Seriality Across Decades via Star Trek"

Chairperson

• Julie Grossman (Le Moyne College)

Panel 2. REPRESENTATION

Presenters

• Shane Denson (Stanford University): "On the Algorithmic Serialisation of Gender"
• Kamilla Elliott (Lancaster University): "Karen Memes"
• Daniel Herbert (University of Michigan): "Franchising Blackness: New Line Cinema’s Racial Industrial Logic"
• Alfred Martin (The University of Iowa): "Does Representation Matter? Adaptation, Blackness, and the Politics of Resonance"
• Pia Majbritt Jensen (Aarhus University): "Gender Distinctions in Children's Notions of Quality in Audiovisual Fiction"
• Rashna Wadia Richards (Rhodes College): "‘Time Is a Lie’: Serial Looping in Richard Linklater’s Before Trilogy"
• Elsie Walker (Salisbury University): "The Obligation to Adapt: Teaching African American Cinema in Relation to the Black Lives Matter Movement"

Chairperson

• Thomas Leitch (University of Delaware)

Panel 3. CRITICAL FANDOM

Presenters

• Eduard Cuelenaere (Ghent University): "Why Audiences Matter: An Explorative Study of Audience Reactions to Monolingual Film Remakes"
• Matt Hills (University of Huddersfield): "The Importance of Paratexts and Intertexts in Fan-Oriented Approaches to Seriality/Adaptation"
• Kate Newell (Savannah College of Art): "‘Previously on...’: Recaps, Precaps, and Television Seriality"
• Monika Pietrzak-Franger (University of Vienna): "Transmedia Practices in the Nineteenth Century"
• Izabela Rudnicka (University of Manchester): "Active Fandom of Web Series: from Fan Pages to Crowdfunding"
• Janet Staiger (University of Texas at Austin): "Interpretive Pleasures in Experiencing Serial Narratives"
• Rebecca Williams (University of South Wales): "Fandom and Spatial Adaptation in Transmedia Tourist Experiences"

Chairperson

• Iain Robert Smith (King’s College)

Panel 4. GENRE II

Presenters

• Rayna Denison (University of Bristol): "Media Mix: Japanese Seriality/Franchising with a Side of Genre"
• David Scott Diffrient (Colorado State University): "‘Oddball’ Spinoffs and Cartoonic Continuations: (Re)Animating American TV Sitcoms"
• Jennifer Forrest (Texas State University, San Marcos): "Can Readaptations Act Like a Genre?: The Case of Classic French Film"
• Christine Geraghty (University of Glasgow): "From Television to Cinema, From London to Chicago, From Grit to Glamour: Widows (2018 & 1983–85)"
• Maria Juko (University of Hamburg): "Adapting Archive 81: Visualising Audio Horror"
• Agnieszka Rasmus (University of Lodz): "The Rewrite: Penning the Anglo-American Rom-Com from Curtisland to Lawrencetown"
• Naghmeh Rezaie (University of Delaware): "Poetry Adapted: Poetic Cinema"

Chairperson

• Constantine Verevis (Monash University)

To Be Continued, 1

Thursday 23 - Friday 24 September 2021

Defining, Producing, Performing, Consuming, and Theorising Serials and Adaptations

Organisers: Julie Grossman (Le Moyne College), Thomas Leitch (University of Delaware), Iain Robert Smith (King’s College), Constantine Verevis (Monash University)

Panel 1. AESTHETICS

Presenters

• Patrick Cattrysse (Universiteit Antwerpen): "Adaptation & Seriality Studies – Terminological and Methodological Reflections"
• Ariane Hudelet (Université de Paris): "Adaptation and Seriality: the Value of Intermediality"
• Betty Kaklamanidou (Aristotle U of Thessaloniki): "The popular serial character in adaptation"
• Amanda Ann Klein (East Carolina University): "American Horror Story: Where the Horror Never Ends"
• Jason Mittell (Middlebury College): "Operational Seriality in Adapting High Fidelity"
• R. Barton Palmer (Clemson University): "Untitled"

Chairperson

• Constantine Verevis (Monash University): "To Be Continued: Opening remarks @Zola"

Panel 2. REPRESENTATION

Presenters

• Dan Hassler-Forest (University of Utrecht): "Lovecraft Country: Re-Storying the Dark Fantastic"
• Kyle Meikle (University of Baltimore): "Black Adaptations: 2015-2021"
• Renata Kobetts Miller (City College of New York): "Untitled"
• Akaitab Mukherjee (Vellore Institute of Technology): "From Great Expectations to Fitoor: Bollywoodization of Charles Dickens"
• Claire Perkins (Monash University): "Untitled"
• Maria Sulimma (University of Duisburg-Essen): "This is what a Gentefier looks like: Gentrification and Seriality in Vida and Gentefied"

Chairperson

• Julie Grossman (Le Moyne College): "Adapting Watchmen: ‘There is No Future. There is No Past’"

Panel 3. MEDIA

Presenters

• Helen Hanson (University of Exeter): "Daphne du Maurier’s multi-media ‘Rebeccas’: Chronology, Seriality, Currency, Constellation aka ‘Last Night I Dreamt I Adapted Rebecca, Again’ "
• Kathleen Loock (Leibniz University Hannover)
• Dana Polan (New York University): "Adaptation Across Moving Image Cultures: Building – and Breaking – the James Bond series"
• Shannon Wells-Lassagne (U. de Bourgogne): "Adaptation and the episode: Examining Community"
• Jeremy Strong (University of West London): "Farce and/as Quality Television"

Chairperson

• Thomas Leitch (University of Delaware): "Adaptation Singular and Plural"

Panel 4. RECEPTION

Presenters

• Vasso Giannakopoulou (University of Cyprus): "Seriality and Translation Studies"
• Jerod Ra’Del Hollyfield (Carson-Newman U.): " ‘Only a River of Blood Can Bring Us Back Together’: Preservation of the Nuclear Family in 21st Century American Horror"
• Glenn Jellenik (University of Central Arkansas): "Originality & Seriality: Platforms, Business Models, etc."
• Lissette Lopez Szwydky (University of Arkansas): "Adaptation, Seriality, and Transmedia Cultural Histories"
• Seda Öz (University of Delaware): "Absence of Reception in Transnational Film Remakes"
• Eckart Voigts (TU Braunschweig): "Seriality, Adaptation, Transmedia Storytelling:  The Case of Killing Eve"

Chairperson

• Iain Robert Smith (King’s College London): "Remakesploitation: Cross-cultural Adaptation and Reception"